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Simon Mellor

Sep 21, 2026

29:16
When do you realize when an event has actually hit its ceiling or when the team is really not, you know, happy with pulling that growth lever off?
29:29
Okay, so I think in terms of event growth, ultimately our limiting factor is physical space, right? I think if you've got a project that is venue-bound, then you're facing challenges of how do I strip out elements of that event and launch satellite events, which was something that Big Five did very successfully.
29:58
But at Frankfurt, it was a different set of challenges.
30:01
I was trying not to be commercially responsible.
30:07
We put a leadership team in place, operational head, marketing head, commercial head.
30:14
We brought HR into a leadership function.
30:16
There had not been a leadership function previously, so that was a big learning exercise for everybody to be able to stay away.

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